CVE-2016-4301

MEDIUM

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_device function in archive_read_support_format_mtree.c in libarchive before 3.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted mtree file.

References

http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91328

http://www.talosintel.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0153/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1348441

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/commit/a550daeecf6bc689ade371349892ea17b5b97c77

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/715

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-03

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2016-09-21

Updated: 2017-07-01

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Impact Score: 5.9

Exploitability Score: 1.8

Severity: HIGH